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Valentine’s Day is now gone and long-forgotten, but the arrival of Chinese New Year will mark the continuation of peak season-attracting the impact of Chinese shoppers and new sale opportunities around travel, food and wellbeing across the UK ecommerce market. The past year has seen a 38% year-on-year increase in orders (more…)

Ricardo Davila, international market director at Sonepar is speaking at InternetRetailing Expo (IRX 2018). Ahead of the even, he spoke to InternetRetailing on challenges and benefits retailers’ can face during in transforming a b2b company into a digital-first business. IR: At IRX 2018 you will be evaluating how b2b companies can change their (more…)

As we enter the spring retail season, retailers are continuing to re-engineer their customer-centric strategies based on the lessons they learned last year. According to the new Retail Index: 2017 Year-in-Review and 2018 Outlook report conducted by DynamicAction, European retailers held steady on promotions and lessened their reliance on margin-eating markdowns in 2017, with (more…)

In-store footfall is falling more vigorously than previously thought and retailers with brick-and-mortar stores need to invest in technology now to stymie the drop. According to Springboard December monthly year-on-year footfall figure was significantly below the three-month rolling average of -1.9% and the twelve-month rolling average of -0.7%, meaning this is decline (more…)

People all over the world continue to prove their affection for one another by not only saying “I love you” and splashing their cash on material goods but instead, by investing in memorable experiences, as new data shows a boom in sentimental spending. The annual “Mastercard Love Index”, created by (more…)

Ahead of this year’s InternetRetailing Expo (IRX 2018) and Delivery Expo (EDX 2018), we’re looking forward to some of the workshops that will focus on technologies. Here are some of the highlights. Attendees will be able to hear, see and feel the wealth of technological possibilities and strategic options available to (more…)

The UK may not – yet – be in recession, but shoppers are certainly starting to feel the pinch, with a considerable proportion of them having to adjust their purchasing norms. According to the annual ‘Shopper Stock Take’ report from Shoppercentric, more than a quarter (26%) of UK shoppers report having noticed prices (more…)

Stuart McMillan, deputy head of ecommerce at Schuh is speaking at Internet Retailing Expo 2018 (IRX 2018). Ahead of the event, he spoke to InternetRetailing about creating a seamless mobile experience. Stuart McMillan, deputy head of ecommerce of Schuh: I’m on a panel with the subject of “What Does A Great Mobile Shopping (more…)

UK shoppers are turning to online international retailers in search of better prices and product assortment, according to a new study. Some 61% of UK online shoppers buy internationally and those who do, 69% have purchased from a retailer outside of Europe in comparison to 59% of those who have purchased (more…)

InternetRetailing is delighted to present the second InternetRetailing Brand Index Report 2018, published in partnership with Rakuten Marketing. This report focuses on brands selling direct to consumers across Europe. Adidas , Apple , Clarks , Missguided , New Look and Nike are named Europe’s leading direct-selling brands in the second annual InternetRetailing Brand Index (more…)

Snatch, the augmented reality (AR) treasure hunt app, is working with Unilever to give players the chance to win the world’s most expensive jar of Marmite ever made, as part of a Gene Project campaign to recognise its both lover or hater fans. The British brand has created a one-off luxury (more…)

Smartphones continue to play an important role in the ecommerce game, overtaking desktop for sales and popularity. Yet, retailers are failing to turn their strategies towards being mobile-first to tap into this mobile shopping boom. So finds The Mobile Method: The Apps Commerce Outlook for 2018 research presented by Shopgate. According to (more…)

With retailers being accused of failing to go ‘mobile first’ – despite the fact that their customers are now overwhelmingly mobile. The figures from Shopgate show that some 45% of retailers are failing to cater properly to app shoppers. But they aren’t just having a go – here they offer some (more…)

Textlocal, one of the UK’s leading SMS platforms, has unveiled text as the latest mobile marketing methods to incentivise client sales and boost brand loyalty and repeat custom with mobile tickets, vouchers and loyalty cards. Clients using the system are given the opportunity to create tickets, vouchers and loyalty cards (more…)

We’re delighted to introduce our latest issue of Internet Retailing UK Top500 2018 report. For the fourth year, our research team assessed leading UK ecommerce and multichannel retailers from a unique performance-based perspective. Over four years that the IRUK Top500 index has been published, just ten companies were identified as Elite retailers (more…)

Ahead of InternetRetailing Expo 2018 and sister event eDelivery Expo at the NEC in Birmingham on 21-22 March, we’re running a series of conference tracks previews and looking ahead to the event. Today, the focus is on being Mobile First. As the dust settles on Black Friday sales, what characterised the (more…)

Gordon’s Gin has introduced a new service that it says can turn rail delays into a pleasant journey, as it uses geo-data to offer frustrated commuters discounted drinks. The aptly named #YayDelay service uses an intelligent algorithm to work out monitor train delays and tweets containing #YayDelay in order to unlock (more…)

Ahead of InternetRetailing Expo (2018) and sister event eDelivery Expo we’re running a series of conference tracks previews and looking ahead to the event. Today, the focus is on the Marketplaces & B2B. With some 41% of all consumer visits to retail sites currently going to Amazon and eBay , (more…)

Hobbycraft, the largest arts and craft retailer in the UK, has launched a new mobile website using Progressive Web App (PWA) that provides frictionless shopping journey for its customer. The website is built on the Mobify Platform, leveraging the latest mobile technologies for retail sites to make them feel and look like (more…)